Certificate & Degree Programs

The Professional Certificate in Visual Storytelling, Certificate in Collaborative Filmmaking and the Low-residency MFA programs at MMC are for artists interested in engaging in a rigorous educational experience in the media arts fields of photography, filmmaking, and multimedia.

Workshops

Hundreds of workshops are offered each year in every aspect of photography and filmmaking, as well as selected courses in writing and book arts. Classes are from Beginner to Master levels, and range from 1 week Workshops to 10 and 12 + Week Intensives.

Life at Maine Media

Students, instructors, faculty and staff mix, mingle, eat and exchange ideas together on MMW+C's 20-acre campus, which is within walking distance to the iconic coastal village of Rockport. Beyond that is Maine’s spectacular MidCoast region, encompassing harbors, ocean, mountains and beautiful natural landscapes.

Work with various social media platforms to push your work into the forefront of today.

We will work with various social media platforms such as Instagram, Vine and Vimeo to push your work into the forefront of today. We will work to create factual, to the point films that are mindful of the time people now spend looking for news.

Examine video teases and engaging visual tweets and Instagram feeds to better inform your own work

In today’s culture of up to the moment news storytellers are everyday citizens and are sharing breaking news directly to social media via smart phones and DSLR cameras.The skills you will learn in this class will build on the ones you already possess. Working with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Inscribe and Pluralyes you will delve into the art of storytelling.

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Instructor: Bob Sacha

Bob Sacha is a director, cinematographer, editor, teacher, photographer and a collaborator on visual journalism projects. In 2014 he shot the video for the Guardian US team project that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, an Emmy, a Webby and the first gold medal ever given by the Society for News Design. He teamed up with Blue Chalk as the the director of photography for the New York Times series, "Living City," about New York’s infrastructure. BlindSight, a documentary short about a group of blind photographers that he directed and shot, produced with Kate Emerson, had its world premiere at DOCNYC, the country’s largest documentary festival. His new passion and focus is 360 Video/VR for journalism. Bob has also directed, produced, shot and edited nonfiction video stories for Al Jazeera America Online, Yahoo News, AudubonScience, Apple, the Asia Society, Starbucks, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Open Society Foundation, among other international clients. For several years he worked as a staff producer and editor at MediaStorm, where his projects were nominated for three national news Emmys and won numerous awards.

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We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are committed to fostering a diverse community that values creativity, respects culture, and seeks to deepen human understanding and expand communication in the world.

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